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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=blue><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FYI :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Planetary Resources [mailto:resources=planetaryresources.com@mail26.us1.mcsv.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Planetary Resources<br><b>Sent:</b> Freitag, 15. Februar 2013 14:01<br><b>To:</b> thomas@thomas-steinbrenner.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Asteroid Impact of 1,000 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombs...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/653153ae841fd11de66ad181a/images/transparent.gif"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Hi Thomas, <br><br>As you probably have heard, today, February 15th, a 150-foot (45 meter) asteroid is whizzing by the Earth a hair’s breath from the surface. Missing us by only 14,000 miles, well within the 22,300 mile orbit of the Geostationary satellites that orbit around the Earth’s equator. I wanted to put this in perspective for you with some of the <a href="http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373&id=1ca8bc5971&e=aad5bcdede" target="_blank"><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>chilling and fascinating facts</span></b></em></a><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:</span></em></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>This is approximately the same size as the asteroid that hit the Earth in Russia in Siberia (the “Tunguska Event”) on June 30th 1908.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>That impact was equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs & knocked down 80 million trees down over an area covering 2,150 square kilometers (830 sq mi).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Had it hit near a population center it would have killed millions of people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Today, there are approximately 610,000 asteroids that are actively tracked in our Solar System. <strong><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This number represents less than one percent of the more than 60 million asteroids that orbit the Sun</span></u></strong>. <br> <br>To learn more about the threat that these asteroids pose and what Planetary Resources, Inc. and the Asteroid Mining industry can do to help protect the Earth, <a href="http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373&id=bd2dfd7683&e=aad5bcdede" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CLICK HERE</span></strong></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>-Chris Lewicki<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>President & Chief Asteroid Miner<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373&id=d8e72f5df0&e=aad5bcdede"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=79 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373/images/bb_white_72dpi_403x106.png" alt="Planetary Resources logo"></span></a></span><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://planetaryresources.us5.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=86e5e3fd66ecbdeda82b09373&id=56f20b1283&e=aad5bcdede"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>